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Title: A PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE ON TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING WIND FIELDS, SNOW DRIFT, AND SNOW DISTRIBUTION: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Holt Hancock, Kjersti Gisnås, Peter Gauer, Nikolas Aksamit, Anna Poltronieri, Christian Jaedicke, Anders Kleiven; Description: Understanding how, where, and when snow accumulates due to blowing and drifting snow processes plays a key role in avalanche forecasting, hazard mappi...; Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.5.pdf; Keywords: snow drift, blowing snow, wind, avalanche forecasting, planning.; View additional details about A PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE ON TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING WIND FIELDS, SNOW DRIFT, AND SNOW DISTRIBUTION

Title: MITIGATION OF THE STORTUVA AVALANCHE: Date: 2024-09-23; Authors: Hallvard Skaare Nordbroden, Henrik Langeland, Kalle Kronholm; Description: Mosjoen city center lies at river Vefsnas estuary and is threatened by the Stortuva Avalanche from the opposite riverside. Several avalanches have cau...; Object ID: ISSW2024_P7.2.pdf; Keywords: powder snow avalanche, avalanche mitigation, case study, snow drift; View additional details about MITIGATION OF THE STORTUVA AVALANCHE

Title: VALIDATION OF A WIND TRANSPORT SCENARIOS TOOL: Date: 2023-10-08; Authors: Eloïse Bovet, Nathalie Durand, Andrea Debernardi, Luca Pitet, Igor Torlai; Description: The wind drift plays an important role in the definition of avalanche scenarios. In order to forecast the slopes subjected to snow drift a rapid and s...; Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.02.pdf; Keywords: snow drift, meteorological model, validation, forecast, avalanche scenario; View additional details about VALIDATION OF A WIND TRANSPORT SCENARIOS TOOL

Title: Wind transport scenarios based on the slope aspect for avalanche risk management purposes: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: EloÃ¯se Bovet, Luca Pitet, Igor Torlai, Valerio Segor, Paola Dellavedova, Umberto Pellegrini; Description: Avalanche risk management assumes an in-depth knowledge of the nivometeorological situation to which tools for the definition of avalanche potential r...; Object ID: ISSW2018_O02.1.pdf; Keywords: snow-drift, forecast, avalanche risk management, avalanche scenario.; View additional details about Wind transport scenarios based on the slope aspect for avalanche risk management purposes

Title: Modelling spatial snow drift patterns using wind fields and negative openness: Date: 2018-10-07; Authors: Jutta Staudacher, Michael Winkler, Marc Olefs; Description: We present first results of a newly developed 2-layer snow drift model for alpine terrain, which provides snow drift modelling at very high temporal a...; Object ID: ISSW2018_P12.5.pdf; Keywords: patterns of snow drift, maximum potential of snow drift, snowgrid, operational snow drift forecast; View additional details about Modelling spatial snow drift patterns using wind fields and negative openness

Title: Synoptic Meteorological Conditions Associated With Snow Drift And Avalanche Activity in a High Arctic Maritime Snow Climate: Date: 2016-10-02; Authors: Holt J. Hancock, Jordy Hendrikx, Karl Birkeland, Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen; Description: Avalanche activity in snow climates dominated by direct-action avalanches is primarily controlled by the local and synoptic scale meteorological condi...; Object ID: ISSW16_P4.06.pdf; Keywords: snow drift, synoptic avalanche forecasting, svalbard; View additional details about Synoptic Meteorological Conditions Associated With Snow Drift And Avalanche Activity in a High Arctic Maritime Snow Climate

Title: Critical Review of Challenges and Potentials for Snow Drift Simulation: Date: 2010; Authors: Arnulf Wurzer, Arnold Studeregger, Peter Fischer; Description: A review of current snow drift models is given. Further a turbulent snow drift model based on an Algebraic Slip Model approach is validated. The drivi...; Object ID: ISSW_P-026.pdf; Keywords: optimization, algebraic slip model, aerodynamic entrainment, snow drift, cfd, time dependent boundary conditions; View additional details about Critical Review of Challenges and Potentials for Snow Drift Simulation

Title: Case Study: Schober Avalanche on February 28th, 2009, Styria, Austria: Date: 2010; Authors: A. Studeregger, H. Rieder, A. Riegler, G. Zenkl; Description: On February 28th, 2009 at 07.00 a.m. the Schober avalanche cracked in an altitude of 1820 m above sea level as a slab avalanche with a fracture depth ...; Object ID: ISSW_P-094.pdf; Keywords: wet snow avalanche, slab avalanche, snow drift, styrian avalanche service; View additional details about Case Study: Schober Avalanche on February 28th, 2009, Styria, Austria

Title: The Use of a Numerical Snow-Drift Model as a Decision Making Tool in the Planning of Avalanche Protection Measures: Date: 2002; Authors: Peter Gauer; Description: Blowing and drifting snow is not only a major factor in the assessment of the acute avalanche danger, its contribution to the snow distribution also i...; Object ID: issw-2002-604-608.pdf; Keywords: snow-drift, numerical modeling, meso-scale weather model, nesting, planning tool; View additional details about The Use of a Numerical Snow-Drift Model as a Decision Making Tool in the Planning of Avalanche Protection Measures

Title: Drift-Flux Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Snow-Accumulation: Date: 1996; Authors: Per-Arne Sundsbo; Description: This paper presents a method for two-dimensional numerical simulations of snow drift. The numerical model is based on two-phase, gas-gas theory where ...; Object ID: issw-1996-135-139.pdf; Keywords: snow drift, snow fence, cfd; View additional details about Drift-Flux Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Snow-Accumulation